Fresh Singles for Your Playlist—Or Your Next Project
Global rhythms, studio polish, and genre-blurring grooves—ready to inspire or integrate.
Music and lyrics by Simon and he sings the lead vocal and plays drums, percussion and acoustic guitar. His colleagues from the “Vagabond 3” project Bernard O’neill and Andy Brodie provide bass, organ and electric guitar. It’s a song about missing someone and how sometimes such people come to you in your thoughts.
Ordinary Lives
A single from the album “Threads”, Ordinary Lives is written by Simon and he sings lead vocals and plays drums and percussion. Bass and keyboards are played by his long term rhythm section partner Bernard O’neill. Ordinary Lives is a message to a kid who’s being bullied and it’s a message of hope and strength in adversity.
Betting on a Game
A single from the album “Threads”, Simon Webster’s Betting on a Game is a pop/ rock track. Simon sings leads vocals and plays drums and congas. Bass is played by his long time rhythm section partner Bernard O’neill.
Singles with a Global Pulse
From Moroccan-inspired grooves to genre-defying fusions—studio tracks that breathe like live performances.
Inspired by the trance rhythms, melodies and instruments of the “Gnaoua” style of Moroccan music, “Sidi El Gnaoui” features Mouna Eddrou’s haunting Sufi vocals, Simon’s blistering percussion licks, dub reggae sound effects and a driving house beat and production, creating a heady, hypnotic mix.
Loosely described as “Moroccan house music”, and potentially put in the category of “Afro house”, Dar Haleshla has a unique sound and style and needs to be heard to be believed!
Shems
“Shems” means “Sun” and is the second single from the Dar Haleshla EP “Feenkoum?”. Based around a fusion groove of a driving house music drum beat and arrangements from French producer Delta Patch and a percussion polyrhythm from Moroccan “Aissawa” music, it features Mouna Eddrou’s floating, beautiful lyrics in French and a funky, syncopated percussion arrangement.
This well-crafted fusion makes for a hypnotic, heady and innovative house music track.
Feenkoum
Feenkoum? is the fourth and last single from the Dar Haleshla EP which takes its name. A darker, moodier sounding track, “Feenkoum?” (which means “where are you?” in Arabic) contains “Dar Haleshla”’s signature percussive and vocal elements with house music beats and arrangements, and dub reggae sound effects.
Moulay Ya Sali
“Moulay Ya Sali” is an adaptation of an Aissawa song from the traditional Moroccan repertoire. Mouna and Simon perform it with vocals, bendir, congas and bass drum, adding touches of Latin music to this traditional Sufi song from Meknès, Mouna’s hometown.
Eccodek a.k.a Andrew McPherson is an award winning Canadian musician and producer. The original track features on Haleshla’s second EP “Why Not?”.
Diasporic music traditions from the world’s 4 corners, fused with a future-forward mix of funk, dub, electronic and jazz.
Collaborations with artists from Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Turkey, Persia, India and the Caribbean, have made Eccodek a leader in global fusion.
Typical Moroccan tempo accelerations, masterfully negotiated to produce a sublime, vocal centric reggae remix of this classic gnaoua track.
Sail Away
More than ever, the human story of parents taking their children to new lands in the hope of finding a better life is poignant and relevant.
Sail Away tells this story and features Mouna Eddrou on vocals and Bernard O’neill on bass, organ and various sound effects. Mixed and mastered by Sylvain Loisel.
Dounia
Dounia means “life” in Arabic and is the third single from the EP “Feenkoum”. It follows the same style of the previous two singles, house music beats and arrangements, percussion, dub reggae sound effects and Mouna Eddrou’s Sufi singing.
Dounia differs in that the percussion uses Middle Eastern or “sherki” rhythms and drums and whole track is more sparse and ambient while keeping the hypnotic, trance-like qualities of the other tracks from the EP.
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Music for Events
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